Professor Padoa Schioppa (APS for students and friends) is a historian, professor of law and was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the State University in Milan from 1983 to 1999. His dream is that we should all work together towards the completion of the magnificent cathedral.

Televised debates, the press and messages sent via the Internet almost always give a distorted picture of what the European Union is today and what it could be in the future. This book may be used to stimulate discussion about the vast number of interdisciplinary subjects underlying the European project, including economics, law, political science and history.